Speaking at SLNSW
I’ve been promoted! Apparently I’m now a member of the B-list which, according the blurb at the State Library of NSW is “an exciting, new style of book club hosted by the award-winning author and avid reader, Bri Lee. Each month Bri will be in conversation with a variety of authors previously shortlisted for one…
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling by Larissa Behrendt – Book Review
Eliza Fraser’s story is one hell of a tale. No doubt you’ve heard it before: young woman shipwrecked off the Queensland coast in the 1836, long days at sea in an open boat, cast ashore on a large island inhabited by Aboriginal savages, husband killed and Eliza rescued from ‘a fate worse than death’ just…